Re: [SOLVED] Copying a lot of files causes a complete system crash

1) Try switching IO scheduler to noop and repeat. Problem still there?2) Try another DE as the problem could be a gnome bug. xfce4 or lxde are pretty stable and would represent good test cases. Problem still there?

Re: [SOLVED] Copying a lot of files causes a complete system crash

Thank you for your suggestions, I'm beginning to think it may be a faulty drive. I tried installing Ubuntu on a separate partition on the SSD and it did the same reboot thing shortly after starting the install process.

My next consideration is whether it's worth installing Windows on the drive in case its something to do with how Linux handles the cache part of the drive. When copying the files it shows it as a gig through the copy but when it has rebooted only about 600kb have actually copied.

Re: [SOLVED] Copying a lot of files causes a complete system crash

Here's what someone posted on one of my threads, concerning SSDs. You might want to try it, didn't solve my problem but might solve yours (mine looks to be a bit tricky)

sultanoswing wrote:

On my desktop hardware setup (see below), when I installed an SSD I had to add "libata.force=noncq" to the kernel command line options. The drive was behaving erratically (lots of I/O errors) before I did that. Can't remember where I read that tip, but jus' passing it on in case you suffer similarly.